Network Solution Engineer

Overview

FieldAI’s Irvine team blends embodied AI with real robots, sensors, and field deployments. Based in Southern California, we build risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems that solve challenging robotics problems and enable embodied intelligence. If you want work that ships, is tested on hardware, and improves through real deployments, Irvine is the place to contribute.

We are looking for a Network Solution Engineer to own the network backbone that keeps our robots online, mission-ready, and connected—from Wi-Fi and cellular to routers and customer private networks. You will bring up field routers, troubleshoot coverage and interference on-site, and partner with customer IT to get robots admitted onto their networks.

This role sits at the intersection of networking, field operations, and customer enablement. You will triage issues across software, hardware, and networking layers, build monitoring and tooling that surfaces connectivity health across the fleet, and translate field learnings into playbooks and product feedback to improve future deployments.

What You have To Do

• Own end-to-end connectivity for deployments — Wi-Fi, cellular, routers, and customer private networks.
• Bring up, configure, test, and recover field routers so robots come online and stay mission-ready.
• Partner with customer site IT on access-point placement and coverage — flag dead zones, interference, and weak spots, and advise on placement, channel, and antenna adjustments.
• Resolve connectivity failures in the field: poor coverage, weak or failing cellular/SIMs, access-point and backhaul issues, regulatory/DFS no-channels states, and roaming problems.

• Root-cause field issues across software, hardware, and networking layers — using connectivity telemetry (signal, latency, packet loss) to attribute faults to network or application, and route to the right team to maintain uptime and mission success.
• Stand up and operate monitoring and diagnostics that surface connectivity health across the fleet.
• Gather and analyze field feedback, and partner with engineering to drive recurring fixes and automation into the tooling.

• Bring robots onto customer private networks — supply the correct device MAC addresses for allow listing and coordinate with customer IT to admit robots.
• Translate connectivity status into clear, actionable updates for operators, site teams, and customer IT.
• Serve as a trusted connectivity point of contact to accelerate deployment and keep sites running.

• Be the voice of the field for connectivity, bringing site network insights back to engineering and product.
• Collaborate across software, hardware, and platform teams to keep robots connected.
• Build scalable connectivity playbooks and runbooks for future rollouts.

• Strong networking fundamentals — Wi-Fi (bands, channels, DFS, roaming), cellular (LTE/5G, APN, SIM provisioning), routers and access points, subnets/VLANs, DHCP, DNS, NAT, and MAC addressing/allow listing.
• Practical Wi-Fi coverage sense — able to spot dead zones and interference and understand how AP placement, channels, and antennas affect coverage and roaming.
• 2–3 years in field deployment, systems integration, network operations, or IT/NOC; field robotics a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging across software, hardware, and networking layers, with the judgment to know where a problem lives.
• Comfortable on Linux and in a terminal/SSH; scripting (Python/Bash) to automate tooling is a plus.
• Clear communicator who works directly with customers and IT in high-stakes settings and translates technical issues for non-technical audiences.
• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguous, rapidly changing field environments.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site with customers as needed.

• Comfort reading network and fleet telemetry — dashboards and logs — to diagnose issues (specific tools are easily picked up on the job).
• A track record deploying, operating, or maintaining mission-critical systems in real-world environments.

$115,000 - $135,000 a year

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